Michael Connelly

Crime in Florida has reached a 40-year low, but Michael Connelly doesn’t expect to run out of material any time soon. Even back when he was standing next to a bloodied body as a young police-beat reporter at the Sun Sentinel in the mid 1980s,...

Michael Connelly's novels about LAPD detective Harry Bosch have made him one of the top contemporary mystery writers, and a staple of the best-sellers list. More than 20 years after Connelly's 1992 award-wining debut "The Black Echo," he is still...

The San Fernando Valley is 260 square miles of suburbia. Actually, make that suburbia on nutritional supplements. And antidepressants. With perhaps a little cosmetic surgery south of Ventura Boulevard, where the big money is. Or maybe — now that it'...

"The Black Box" By Michael Connelly. Little, Brown, 416 pages, $27.99 In 1992, Michael Connelly hit the ground running with his debut “The Black Echo,” which introduced LAPD detective Harry Bosch. That novel won the Edgar Award for best...

It's been two decades since the maverick Los Angeles homicide detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch made his debut in Michael Connelly's first novel, "The Black Echo." In 18 novels over that span, the hard-charging, short-tempered, fiercely independent Bosch...

I've seen him. Really. I'm not crazy. I'm not a liar. And I swear to you: I've seen Harry Bosch, the hero of Michael Connelly's brilliant, best-selling and melancholy-drenched mystery series. What's that you say? Bosch is a fictional character? -----...

As part of the Glendale Public Library citywide reading program, One Book/One Glendale, a series of events sponsored by Glendale Community College are being held on campus throughout the month highlighted by a keynote address and book signing from...

Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...

The Hachette Book Group has been savvy when it comes to producing apps that promote its authors' work. Fans can download apps to keep up to date with authors such as Michael Connelly, James Patterson or David Baldacci. But one of the group's most...

It is time to remind you to sign up for this year's Literary Orange 2012 event, to be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 14 at the UC Irvine Student Center. The keynote speakers will be Paula McLain and Lisa See. There will be sessions on everything from...

Our story Club members are all colleagues at Infogix Inc., a software company in Naperville. Before we started our literary endeavor four years ago, we were a TV watching club. We would watch the show "24" and then discuss it over lunch. The writers'...